Levelland Drug Bust Suspects Arraigned
By: Mitch Carr
Updated: July 13, 2009
Twenty-one men and women accused of taking part in a methamphetamine trafficking ring were arraigned in Federal District Court today in Lubbock. The two most important of those that were arraigned today were Bobby Duwayne Froman and Jose Jesus Quintanilla. Court documents accuse Froman of being the ring leader, the so-called founder and then president of the Aces and Eights Outlaw Motorcycle Gang, which is accused of running meth from Modesto, California to Levelland and Lubbock. In addition to that accusation, the federal indictment states that Froman used his house and at least four others to package and sell drugs. Quintanilla was the head narcotics officer for the Hockley County Sheriff's Department. Court documents claim that he and Gordon Clark Bohannon, the former Chief Deputy in Hockley County who was arraigned Friday, acted as lookouts. Bohannon and Quintanilla are accused of warning Froman and others that their houses were being staked out by the Department of Public Safety.
It was an arraignment that included so many people and so many charges that it had to be split into two separate hearings. Eleven suspects were arraigned first, followed by another ten to make the grand total of 21.
